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Have you ever been asked to do work for a company-before you were hired? It happens. Sometimes, companies assign speculative (spec) work to candidates for them to complete as part of the hiring process. This could be a writing assignment, business plan, social media posts, or some other example of the type of work you’d be tasked with at your …

As the tension of Election Day mounts across the nation, there’s a good chance that some of that emotion may spill over into the work environment. This may be a good time to remind employees of basic office etiquette should disagreements arise.

Go to lunch with an ask. Don’t be afraid to be transactional. Make yourself go to the cocktail party. “Networking is like exercise,” says Candace Corlett, president of WSL, a retail strategy consulting firm. “You know you must, but do you? And you know if you do, you’ll feel better.” Professional relationships create opportunities and outlets for sounding off about …

CEOs juggle more than most people realize, but the most successful ones make time for planning. However, any CEO can attest to the difficulty in pulling oneself out from the day to day. Strategic planning requires a keen understanding of both details and the big picture – a vision that cannot be conceived on the fly, if one wants to …

In a late night interview following Super Bowl LI, Patriots leading receiver Julian Edelman stated he and teammate Danny Amendola have a saying they say all the time: “You gotta believe.” Making the seemingly unbelievable catch that leveraged the Super Bowl win, Edelman demonstrated his mantra. Edelman notes that “the game was a microcosm of the season.” “We started off …

Who hasn’t made a mistake in their career? You think a sale is a done deal so you forget to do the legwork required to make it a real close. You have a social conversation with upper management who, you later learn, didn’t appreciate the gesture. You extend a deadline to cover for a team member only to end up …

Like schoolchildren starting a new semester, you might wish it were as easy to leap ahead a grade or two in your career. You see projects you would like to work on, boardrooms you would like to enter, and teams you would like to play on that are making a difference. At the same time, you might be thinking a …

Hats were off last week to Always Dreaming after he won the 143rd Kentucky Derby. The thoroughbred, named by Mary Ellen Bonomo, wife of co-owner Anthony Bronomo, Always Dreaming reminds us to live our life a little bit bigger, to rise to the spotlight and to bolt into our own winner’s circle. We often think of dreaming as a nighttime, …